US Congress passes bill with restrictions targeting China
發佈日期: 2025-12-11 21:11
TVB News
The Trump administration may have dialled down its rhetoric on China to maintain a truce in the trade war.
But the US Congress has pushed ahead with more restrictions in a defence authorisation bill that would restrict US outbound investment to China in sensitive sectors, as well as federal government contracting Chinese
biotechnology companies.
The bill was passed in the House by a vote of 312-112, and heads to the Senate next.
The bill authorises 900 billion US dollars for military programmes that was released two days after the White House unveiled its national security strategy, which dropped language that cast China as a strategic threat.
Analysts say "whatever the White House tone, Capitol Hill is locking in a hard-edged, long-term competition with Beijing."
The Chinese embassy in Washington strongly denounced the bill.
Spokesperson Liu Pengyu said "the bill has kept playing up the 'China threat' narrative," and that it is "undermining China's sovereignty, security and development interests and disrupting efforts of the two sides in stabilising bilateral relations."
